Comments on: A Note to the Severely Depressed: Don’t Try So Hard

By: poly

poly — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:05:02 +0000

thnk u… its th same with me…

By: Minnie

Minnie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:49:04 +0000

Good perspective to treat it as it is illness of the brain…so true would we beat ourselves up for our cancer not healing? But in society that’s what happens with those with mental health issues because it’s associated with weak will, not illness. This permeates even after years having a DSM that helps diagnose it as illness…so much stigma even though everyone knows someone with this illness.

By: raihan

raihan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:54:35 +0000

great one..thanks!

By: Sheri Jo

Sheri Jo — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:11:13 +0000

This was such a relief to read. Absolutely great advice. Thank you so much!

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:40:26 +0000

I really appreciated this post. I’m grappling with whether to continue to take anti-depressants while trying to conceive. I’m in the highly recurrent severe depression category. When I’m better (thanks to meds…) I feel like I *should* be able to go off. And yet, my psychiatrist is always saying, yes, it’s great you are feeling better, great to exercise, great you’ve learned so much in therapy, great that you have more social support, etc. etc…. but those things wouldn’t be possible without the effective meds, and wouldn’t be enough to fight off a recurrence without the meds. I know she’s right, that when I was severely depressed last time, I was simply unable to implement my therapist’s admonitions to stop “negative self talk”… it was only when the meds had helped first that suddenly what she was talking about became possible.

By: Depression Survivor

Depression Survivor — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:00:46 +0000

I have suffered from anxiety/ severe depression for most of my life, and can attest to the view that trying to think oneself out of it is impossible.
I have read so many self-help books, and gone deeper and deeper inside myself, all to no avail.
There is definitely a place for distraction/ keeping busy, and talking to other people.
I find this helps.

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By: Adrian Soden

Adrian Soden — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:38:08 +0000

Many people seem to forget the Behavioural component (which incidentally has the most effect) when applying Cognitive Behavioural techniques to treat depression. No amount of thinking/meditating will improve symptoms unless some form of positive reinforcers are regularly experienced – hence activity scheduling & graded task assignment in the early mid stages of therapy(coupled with thought stopping and plenty of distraction tasks!)